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Originally Posted by Itse
Sigh.
For starters, there were only a handful of democracies in the world before the 20th century, and in none of those, most of the population were not allowed to vote.
As for the things like "most violent" and "blood soaked", if you want to disprove the statistical proof to the opposite, you should back your claims with some numbers.
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Read "The War of the World" by Niall Ferguson.
Democracies were involved in the bloodshed too. America carried out genocide against the indigenous, and dropped the Bomb.
The British Empire drained itself of blood in the two great conflicts.
I'm not sure what democracy has to do with it. The 20th century was brutal.